Month: December 2021

Damian Lillard is one of the best point guards in the entire NBA, and he is instrumental to the success of the Portland Trail Blazers, who have always struggled whenever he isn’t in the lineup. This season has been one of trial and error for the Blazers who are constantly trying to figure out which lineups are the best. Head coach Chauncey Billups has a lot to figure out right now and moving forward, it seems as though the Blazers will have to deal with some added adversity.

Over the last few weeks, Lillard has complained of an abdominal issue that has plagued him for quite some time now. Now, Lillard is taking an extra step in regards to this injury, as he will officially take some time away from the team. 

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According to Shams Charania of Stadium and The Athletic Lillard will miss at least 10 days of action as he has been diagnosed with abdominal tendinopathy. This certainly explains his abdominal issues, and hopefully, for Lillard, this change will allow him to get the rest he needs in order to come back better than ever before.

A lot of players have been getting some injuries as of late, and it’s been a bit hard to explain. Of course, over the course of an 82-game season, things like this are bound to happen.

Stay tuned to HNHH for more news and updates from around the NBA.

Rumors circulate the internet so easily, it’s sometimes hard to differentiate what’s real and what isn’t. Unfortunately for a group of Young Thug fans, they were duped into thinking that the rapper would cover their holiday bill at Walmart this week. A rumor began to circulate online that Thug was going to pay for everyone’s purchase at Walmart. However, once people packed their shopping carts with items, Thug was nowhere to be found. 

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A video was shared on Instagram of a man showing people flocking Walmart and packing their carts with items like TVs and other electronics. “We out here, bitch. We waitin’ on Thug,” the individual in the video says. “Thug, man, you better bring your ass up here, man, ’cause this shit here is a catastrophe.”

Thug nor his PR team ever made an announcement that he would be doing this, though it wouldn’t be surprising if he did. Unfortunately, it seems like people didn’t get the shopping spree they thought they were going to get.

Thug has shown his generosity over the years, though. Earlier this year, Young Thug and Gunna teamed up to help post bail for low-level offenders at the Fulton County Jail so they could be reunited with their loved ones. 

Check out the video below from the Walmart fiasco and share your thoughts in the comments.

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Mac Miller’s death in early September 2018 rocked the hip-hop world. As an open drug user, Mac’s death due to overdose left a wound in the rap community that has yet to be healed. 

It was soon revealed that the fatal pills that killed Mac were laced with fentanyl. The suppliers of the pills have since been identified, and their court proceedings began this fall.

By early November, two of the three suppliers involved, Ryan Michael Reavis and Stephen Andrew Walter, had pled guilty to felony counts of distributing fentanyl. The third supplier, Cameron James Pettit, who was the one who directly sold the “blue” pills to Mac Miller, still has his case pending.

During a court hearing yesterday (Nov. 30), Stephen Andrew Walter claimed he did not know the pills had fentanyl in them, although the prosecutors disagreed: “I was charged with selling blue pills, little blue counterfeit oxycontin pills … and I didn’t know what was in them. I didn’t know, like, fentanyl was in it. But I do say, yes, that I aided and abetted the transaction.I never met [Miller] before. I only talked to Cameron [James Pettit]. I didn’t know what his intentions were with the pills. After he saw Ryan Reavis, I didn’t know what he was going to do with them.”

Walter provided the pills to Ryan Michael Reavis, who then provided them to Cameron James Pettit to sell to Mac. When asked if he wanted to change his original not guilty plea to guilty, Reavis confirmed: “Yes, thank you.”

Pettit had agreed to a deal with Mac that he was going to sell him cocaine, xanax and 10 oxycodone pills, which were the ones filled with fentanyl. He died two days after the purchase.

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Walter and Reavis’ sentencing take place on March 7, 2022 and April 4, 2022 respectively, as they both face a maximum of 20 years in prison, a lifetime of supervised release and a $1 million fine. The main supplier Pettit’s fate has yet to be determined.

We will continue to keep you posted with any updates on the criminal case surrounding Mac Miller’s 2018 overdose. 

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30-year-old Lee Price III has been sentenced to 9 years and 2 months in prison after fraudulently obtaining over $1.6 million in COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program loans, according to CBS News. 

Price plead guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering back in September, following his decision to send loan applications to two different lenders for $2.6 million. The criminal reportedly received $1.6 million, and promptly bought himself a Lamborghini Urus, a Ford F-350, a Rolex, spent $700 at the liquor store, $2,500 at night clubs, and paid off a property loan. It wasn’t long after that DOJ took back $700,000 of the initial amount.

As Complex points out, some reports say that Price spent $2,000 at a single strip club, but others have shared news that he “blew thousands at multiple [venues].” 

If you’re wondering how he secured his bag, the Houston man allegedly created false expenses and employee numbers for three businesses (one of which he named “Price Enterprises”), claiming they had multiple employees and a monthly payroll average of $375,000. Authorities have since made it known that there was no indication Price has ever hired anyone or had a payroll for the “business.”

“Mr. Price hopes that others will learn from his reckoning that there is no easy money,” his lawyer, Tom Berg, told the Washington Post in an email. “He has the balance of the 110-month sentence to reflect, repent and rebuild his misspent life.” Back in 2010, Price was convicted of forgery, and in 2011, robbery. CBS News has also shared that he’s currently being accused of “tampering with a government record in Texas.”

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Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix comedy special, The Closer, has brought many prevalent issues to the forefront of popular culture since its release, including racism, transphobia, and the dangers of PC and cancel culture. His jokes about the trans community as well as the LGTBQ community as a whole have especially caused division amongst viewers and critics, and a fundraiser at his old high school was subsequently canceled following a threatened walkout by its current students. Dave Chappelle eventually visited the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C. to hear out the students’ grievances, and shortly thereafter, it was reported that the Q&A session didn’t go too well.

According to Complex, Duke Ellington has officially decided that it will proceed with renaming its theater in Dave Chappelle’s honor, despite the backlash from some of its students. Its decision comes days after Chappelle encouraged his critics and supporters to let their money speak for them through donations to the school.

“If you object to my receiving this honor, I urge you to donate to the school, noting your object,” Chappelle stated in an Instagram post last week. “If you are in favor of the theater being named ‘Chappelle,’ I urge you to donate to the school, noting your approval. Whichever opinion donates the highest collective dollar amount, wins.”

Check out the Chappelle’s Show creator’s full statement below.

The school has also issued a statement on the matter, in which they commend Dave Chappelle’s Instagram funding initiative while making it clear that the theater will be renamed after the comedian in April 2022, regardless of any opinionated donations.

“While we appreciate Dave’s impromptu and spirited fundraising initiative, we stand behind our decision to honor the wishes of our co-founder, the late Peggy Cooper Cafritz, to name the theatre after Chappelle,” the Duke Ellington School of the Arts’ statement reads. “All donations will go towards arts programming and every donor, irrespective of their support or opposition to the theater naming, will receive an official thank you from our team.”

“Chappelle cares deeply about Ellington and its students and regards them as family. He made an unannounced visit before the Thanksgiving break to meet with his Ellington family and to hear directly from the few students who have concerns about his recent comedy special, The Closer,” the statement continues. “While there has been extensive media coverage about the theatre naming and Chappelle’s most recent visit to the school, the source stories that have gone viral have been inaccurate, devoid of context, and neglected to include the nuances of art.”

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Justifying its decision once more, the school’s statement reads, “As an art institution, we educate our students on the importance of media literacy and art as a free and open form of expression to both reflect and challenge society.”

You can read the Duke Ellington School of the Arts’s full statement here.

How do you feel about the school’s ultimate decision to continue with the renaming of its theater after Dave Chappelle?

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